as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
a report on the arctic tundra of Alaska and the polar bears that inhabit that vast, frozen plain
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Recent Examples of tundra
Monitoring of Kalluk, for example, helped stumped researchers discern how polar bears were able to find each other over the vast and apparently featureless Arctic tundra, said Megan Owen, vice president of wildlife conservation science for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
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Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Brown and black bears, moose and wolves, roam tundra and black spruce forests.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
For example, the model predicted diverse communities of fungi in the Alaskan tundra and the Mediterranean scrublands, rather than the Amazon rainforest.
—Amber X. Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2025
His childhood was defined by wild flavors: eating seabird brains, fish crisped over open flames, and plucking berries straight from the tundra.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2025
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Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Brown and black bears, moose and wolves, roam tundra and black spruce forests.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
For example, the model predicted diverse communities of fungi in the Alaskan tundra and the Mediterranean scrublands, rather than the Amazon rainforest.
—Amber X. Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2025
His childhood was defined by wild flavors: eating seabird brains, fish crisped over open flames, and plucking berries straight from the tundra.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tundra
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On the Cougars’ second possession, Weigman broke one tackle and found nothing but Texas prairie in front of him for a 49-yard gain.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
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Adding a 2,800-square-foot prairie meadow along the eastern border of the dog park to provide natural habitat for birds and pollinators, and offer noise buffering.—
Gillian Stawiszynski,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Sep. 2025
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Mongolia’s vast steppes and nomadic heritage have long shaped the rhythms of life.—
Munkhtuya Rentsenbat,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Identification of microbes The team used genomic and bioinformatic techniques to analyze the remains of woolly and steppe mammoths.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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Then a lion’s roar broke across the plain.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Humanity, united by one language, settles on a plain in Shinar and begins constructing a tower to reach the heavens and make a name for themselves.—
John Fugelsang
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, or Roadless Rule, prohibits the new construction of roads and timber harvesting on nearly 45 million acres of national forests and grasslands.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Their preferred habitats likely included open grasslands, forest edges and floodplains.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images An insurgency was launched by Boko Haram in 2009 to establish a caliphate in Nigeria and the broader Sahel (the semi-arid transitional zone between the Sahara and savannas), with several other terrorist groups also active in the region.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Most travelers associate the Great Migration with East Africa’s Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in Tanzania and Kenya, where millions of blue wildebeest—African antelopes also called gnus—thunder across the savanna each year.—
Mazuba Kapambwe,
AFAR Media,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Tundra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tundra. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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